Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2009 11:37:13 -0700 From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> To: Wes Morgan <morganw@chemikals.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com> Subject: Re: Am I using atacontrol attach properly? (sata hotplug issue). Message-ID: <18868.4185.95172.261233@almost.alerce.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903080008120.25621@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet> References: <18867.1464.374096.420552@almost.alerce.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903080008120.25621@ibyngvyr.purzvxnyf.bet>
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Wes Morgan writes: > On Sat, 7 Mar 2009, George Hartzell wrote: > > > I have a Gigabyte GA-6KIEH-RH motherboard. It has 5 SATA ports, 4 > > attached to a Sil 3114 controller and 1 attach to an ICH8m. The > > system is running -CURRENT from yesterday. > > > > I have two disks attaching as ad4 and ad6 to ata2 and ata3 resp. > > > > I can set ACHI mode for ICH8m in the BIOS. When I do not enable it, > > the 5th SATA conector shows up as slave on ata6. When I do enable it > > the 5th connector shows up as master on ata8. > > > > If I boot without anything connected to the fifth port, then connect a > > drive I thought that the following should work to get the drive > > recognized: > > > > sudo atacontrol detach ata8 > > sudo atacontrol attach ata8 > > I'm able to hot-plug new and hot-swap existing drives on an ICH7 > controller, on -current. Have you also tried a reinit? I have tried reinit without any success. I also just rearranged connectors and tried adding a new drive to one of the Sil 3114 without any luck. g.
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